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Cracking the Dream Code CRACKING THE DREAM CODE By Patti Allen Course Introduction, Week 1: Hello and welcome! I’m so glad you have decided to join me in this journey to begin Cracking the Dream Code! It is a journey to unravel the mysteries that your dreams offer up every night. Ultimately, it is the journey home to your true and authentic Self. If you have not had any luck in catching your dreams, don’t worry. I will teach you everything you need to know to catch your dreams, decipher them and take their messages to heart. Here’s what you can look forward to: Week One: Learn Dream Catching101, the 4 habits of highly effective dreamers and everything you need to know to get started. Week Two: Explore the stages of sleep, while jumping into the many types and categories of dreams. Did I mention nightmares? Past lives? Sexual dreams? Week Three: Adding tools to our dream toolbox. Let the messages begin! Week Four: Dreams as story and common dream themes and symbols; Blinders and personal stumbling blocks. What keeps you in the dark? Week Five: Old Age/New Age dreaming, dreams in the ancient world. Week Six: Dreaming to the nth degree (no limits!) -Dream Incubation- Q&A for the Soul, creativity, and problem solving and the Body in Dreams. Cracking the Dream Code 1 Copyright © 2011 by Patti Allen Week Seven: Shamanic Dreamwork and Dreams that go bump in the night…Not-so-strange bedfellows! Week Eight: Wellness and Bodies and Dream Groups, oh my! A new lesson will be posted weekly together with exercises and practices that will help you integrate your new understanding of dreams into your daily life. You will need a journal, whether a simple spiral notebook or leather bound book, dedicated to your dream exploration. Implied in this notebook is your commitment to do the work of recording your dreams. This course will not offer you an online dream dictionary where you will be told, “this means that”! Instead, you will learn how to find your own meaning and messages in your dreams. The videos will add another dimension to your dream work, introducing you to a more integrative way of exploring your dreams with body, mind and spirit. Let us begin! Dreams Matter! Whether you have been remembering your dreams for years, or you are curious but haven’t had any success in dream recall, if you have found your way here, then you likely would agree that your dreams matter! Beginnings can be difficult when they challenge us to do or learn something different. And for that very reason, beginnings can be quite powerful. We are given a chance to shift energy, change direction, learn and create. Learning how to understand dreams is actually less daunting than one might think. Dreams have been wrapped in Cracking the Dream Code 2 Copyright © 2011 by Patti Allen mystery and shrouded in authority, the authority of the psychiatric community. But the philosophy I hold when I teach is that we can learn from those who have expertise and experience in this “field of dreams,” as you will with me, but you, the dreamer, are the only expert on your dreams that matters. This is important to remember as you work your way through the course material and you begin Cracking the Dream Code. Each one of you will have certain commonalities, but ultimately, your understanding from your dreams will come from deep within you. I will give you the tools, but you must apply them to your own dreams and see what they mean for you. And when your mind isn’t sure, your body will help you clarify its meaning. Dream Philosophy 101 Here’s the deal: People have been dreaming since the beginning of time and still the “experts” don’t agree on just what dreams are! So my philosophy is that dreams really do have meaning and you are the only expert that matters. When I help someone get the message from their recurring dreams, once they do, they find that those dreams stop! Clearly, this tells me that dreams have meaning. We will also approach our dreams as tools and technology for the soul so that means that dreams will not only tell you about your psychological issues but they will also show you what’s going on in your body as well as your spirit and all the things that are on your mind. The face you show the world is just the mask you wear, but you are so much more than that! You are a multi-dimensional being and your dreams will show you all of who you are. You may have out-of-body Cracking the Dream Code 3 Copyright © 2011 by Patti Allen dreams, past-life dreams, visitations-from-the-dead dreams and precognitive material all come through the vehicle that we call “dreams”. You may have already had mysterious encounters with the unknown or unexplainable access to information that your conscious mind had no way of knowing. You may have had encounters with other spirits or purely subjective and symbolic dreams. Our philosophy encompasses it all. We do not consider dreams to be unreal, imaginary or made up, and our waking life to be “real”. We believe that all dreams are valid experiences that take place, whether we are awake or asleep and they all are “real” to our soul. From now on, please try to never utter the words, “It was only a dream”! Holographic Dreamwork TM This is my name for the kind of dreamwork we will be practicing and we take this phrase from the model of a hologram. “Holos” comes from the Greek, meaning “whole” and our dream work follows that model. A hologram, besides being those cool pictures on your credit card, are actually three dimensional images where an object appears in all its three dimensional glory. If you were to divide a hologram in half (don’t try this at home) you would still see the whole within both halves. For our purposes, it’s the metaphor that we are interested in; the whole is contained in each of the parts. In the dream work that you will learn, all of who you are, is in each and every dream and all of you will help your mind understand the dream’s messages. Cracking the Dream Code 4 Copyright © 2011 by Patti Allen 4 Habits of Highly Effective Dreamers To crack the dream code, we need to have some dreams to work with. Be patient with yourself, particularly if you’ve not recorded your dreams before. Successful and effective dreamers are first of all, dreamers who catch their dreams. It’s that simple! We all dream, every night from 3-5 dreams per night. This might be different for someone who has suffered brain damage, or for one who uses strong medicine, drugs or alcohol but for the average, healthy dreamer we have a bumper crop from which to draw every night. If you think you don’t dream, you really are simply not remembering your dreams. Here are four habits that you will need to take seriously (it doesn’t mean we won’t have fun) and cultivate. 1. Set the Stage: We need to set the stage for dreaming and the way we do that is by setting up your bedroom for good energy and sweet dreams. Whether you follow Feng Shui or not (I highly recommend Denise Linn’s books “Sacred Space” and “Space Clearing A-Z”.) Make sure your bedroom is clutter-free, clean and well aired out. This may seem obvious, but it’s actually an aspect of dreaming that is often overlooked. We literally have to make room for our dreams. It’s possible that the mess in your bedroom isn’t yours. If your partner won’t join you in this process, then just take responsibility for your side of the bed and your own mess. Once you’ve done this, look to your nightstand. Your nightstand needs to have a space for your journal and a pen (pens with lights built in to them are great and can sometimes be found in medical supply stores.) You can also use a digital recorder if waking a partner isn’t an issue. You might even set up Cracking the Dream Code 5 Copyright © 2011 by Patti Allen an altar on your nightstand that honors dreams. Note: Altars are not specifically religious, though they can be. They can be focused on beauty or hold pictures of anything that feels uplifting, including things you want to draw into your life. Mostly altars are a way of focusing intent. And our beginning intent is to invite dreams in and to remember them! 2. Day Notes: Successful dreamers make sure they have all the information they need in their dream journals. Before sleep, take a few moments to write down the highlights of your day especially any emotional content. You don’t need more than a few lines to summarize your day. Your feelings will factor into your dream decoding so you need to make note of them as well. (Example: “I fought with mom about her driving. I felt so angry!”) This may feel unnecessary at first and your natural reaction may be that you will remember your day. But what we are building is a context for your dreams and over time, perhaps a few months or a year later, it will be difficult to recall the details of your life on any given day.
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